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Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords:
Click-to-play video ads for AdWords — We're very excited to announce the release of click-to-play video ads on the content network. Here's Bismarck, from the Video Ads team, with the details on this new feature: … We hope you'll keep your eyes out for this new feature and let us know what you think.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google PPC Video Ads - I'm Betting Against It — Google will launch a new pay-per-click video ad product and syndicate it out through its Adsense Network today. Like Google's normal text ads, Advertisers will bid for placement and will be charged when a user clicks on the video.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Moves to Sell Space for Video Spots on Network of Web Sites — GOOGLE is taking its first steps to go after the huge market for television advertising this week with a new service that will place video commercials on the many Web sites where it sells advertising.
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Google 'Click to Play' Video Ads — Today Google is launching "click-to-play" video ads that will appear in its AdSense network. The ads will be part of the same auction as text and graphical ads and feature the same targeting capabilities. It's a fascinating development that starts …
Financial Times:
MySpace seeks link with Google or Microsoft — By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Aline van Duyn in New York — MySpace, the fast-growing "social networking" site, is in talks to forge a internet search link with either Google or Microsoft, in a move that would confirm the emergence …
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Nick / Rough Type:
MySpace peddles its eyeballs — MySpace may be in the right space at the right time. The massive social-networking site hasn't had much luck converting its zillions of page views into cash through old-style banner ads, so now it's reportedly seeking a search-engine partner to supply targeted pay-per-click ads throughout the site.
Michael V. Copeland / Business 2.0:
Unlocking the iPod — If you want to buy content for Apple's iPod, you have to go through iTunes. Navio Systems is hoping to change that. — In an ideal digital world, we'd be able to buy copyrighted music and videos wherever we wanted, not just on a designated store.
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SAMSUNG Electronics Launches the World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk — SEOUL, Korea - May 23, 2006 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in digital media technology, will release the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD).
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ZDNet:
Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees — As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, the company is contemplating whether to change a long running tradition and take away admin rights from its employees in order to improve security.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Company Asks U.S. to Provide Radio Space for Free Internet — In an ambitious proposal, a Silicon Valley company has asked the government to give it a band of radio spectrum for a free high-speed wireless Internet network that would cover most of the country and be supported by advertising.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
HDMI, the Manchurian DRM - a Broadcast Flag dormant until 2010 — Hollywood studios and some CE manufacturers have reportedly entered into an informal agreement to hold off on using the "image constraint token" in HDMI DRM until 2010 or 2012. The image constraint token is a flag in a video signal …
Neil Kjeldsen / TechCrunch:
Download Your TV - The Current Options — Downloadable television, first made popular by Tivo and its competitors, is compelling stuff. As consumers become accustomed to watching a show whenever they choose, pausing at will and fast tracking through commercials, tuning in to a station …
Dan Zehr / Austin American-Statesman:
Dell tests the retail waters again — Dallas and New York-area mall stores will open later this year. — Dell Inc. will break its long boycott against retail sales with two stores at shopping malls later this year, but the company said it will remain true to its direct model by having shoppers order products online for delivery.
New York Times:
An Internet Phone Pioneer, Poised to Go Public, Has Rivals at Its Heels — Brandon Sehlke of San Antonio recently chose Time Warner over Vonage. He gets Internet phone service, television service and broadband for $89.95 a month; Vonage costs $24.99 a month for phone service alone.
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VectroTel Provides Secure Mobile Communications — Without getting philosophical, let me just say this: eavesdropping is bad, m'kay? And while large corporations may see things differently (think ATT), it's nice to see smaller outfits doing something to help you keep your private conversations, well, private.
Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal:
New Domain Name — .Mobi — Could Spur Wireless Web — Surfing the Web on a cellphone can be as difficult as surfing the ocean on a tiny board. Now, a company founded by Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Vodafone Group PLC, Nokia Corp., and several other companies, aims to make it easier …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod — A federal judge on Monday gave final approval to a settlement in a class action suit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment over anticopying software the company had embedded in some music CDs. — The agreement (click for PDF) covers anyone who bought …
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